Funeral prices against everything else

US funeral expenses against all consumer prices, both rebased to 100. Latest reading August 2026, funerals up 3.0% on the year against 3.4% for all items.

Funeral expensesAll items, headline CPIBoth rebased to 100 in January 2005

January 2005 to August 2026, 259 monthly readings. Funeral expenses finish at 187 against 176 for all items, so a basket of funeral goods and services that cost $100 at the start costs about $187 now, while everything else costs about $176.

Funeral Price Index by Burial Estimator, updated monthly from BLS dataSeries CUUR0000SEGD02 against CUUR0000SA0. Funeral home basket only, cemetery charges are not in it.